Category: Android

Big-Impact Business Features in iOS 10 EMM provider MobileIron recently published a white paper on what enterprises need to know about iOS 10; 81 percent of devices in the enterprise run Apple’s mobile OS, according to the company’s latest Mobile Security and Risk Reviewreport. Sean Ginevan, Senior Director of Strategy at MobileIron, explained how iOS

Google Play was used twice the number of times Apple’s App Store was used for downloading apps in 2015. This marks a huge achievement for Google as its downloads exceeded those of Apple by 100%. In 2014, the figure was 60%, suggesting that Google Play not only got bigger in 2015 but also grew at a

Earlier this month, the folks at Google officially announce the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10, but they failed to reveal when the new firmware will be released for the public. We told you soon after that Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 might get it November 3rd,

News that Finnish company Supercell made $892m from its two mobile games in 2013 was a boost for the European apps industry, but the market is about more than consumer apps. A report published by the European commission suggests that two-thirds of the revenues earned by European app developers in 2013 came from work-for-hire projects for clients

The NSA is able to extract data including location, contacts, and credit card details from a massive database of global SMS messages, reports The Guardian. The US National Security Agency is collecting millions of “untargeted” text message from across the globe on a daily basis, according to a report from The Guardian. An NSA program,

In 2014, an estimated 2.5 billion devices will be sold worldwide, and increase of 6 percent over the previous year, according to Gartner. More than 75 percent of the devices will be mobile phones, with Android achieving more than double the share of Apple’s iOS or Windows Phone in 2014. (Credit: Gartner) So it’s clear,

In a booming global app economy, United States leads iOS App Store revenue growth, while Japan and South Korea drive Google Play revenue growth Key trends across stores, countries and categories Over the past quarter, Google Play has achieved higher growth rates than the iOS App Store for both downloads and revenues. While Google Play

Google’s mobile OS scooped up more half of U.S. smartphone sales from mid-November through mid-February, says research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. With more than half (51.2%) of smartphone sales, Android realized 5.8% growth compared to the same period last year. iOS remains in second place with 43.5% of smartphone sales, down for a consecutive period,

As of yet, there’s no word on what smartphones running the Ubuntu OS will look like, hardware-wise. But Canonical — the tech startup which drives much of Ubuntu’s development and looks for ways to exploit it commercially — just recently posted its guidelines for the look and feel of Ubuntu on smartphones. These reveal its

You’ve heard it that the new BlackBerry platform was launched with 70,000 apps, and you may be wondering how the Canadian company managed to get so many developers on board even before a single device running BlackBerry 10 was released. The answer is simple – they provided great porting tools to allow Android developers to